Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

The generation of polymer brushes by surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization (SI-
CRP) techniques has become a powerful approach to tailor the chemical and physical …

Complex chemical systems, such as living biological matter, are highly organized structures
based on discrete molecules in constant dynamic interactions. These natural materials can …

The self-assembly of inorganic nanoparticles is of great importance in realizing their
enormous potentials for broad applications due to the advanced collective properties of …

This Perspective presents recent advances in macromolecular engineering enabled by
ATRP. They include the fundamental mechanistic and synthetic features of ATRP with …

Surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP) has become an
indispensable tool for engineering the structure and properties of polymer/inorganic and …

Multicomponent nanocrystal superlattices represent an interesting class of material that
derives emergent properties from mesoscale structure, yet their programmability can be …

The introduction of molecularly woven three-dimensional (3D) covalent organic framework
(COF) crystals into polymers of varying types invokes different forms of contact between filler …

Grafting polymers to nanoparticle surfaces influences properties from the conformation of the
polymer chains to the dispersion and assembly of nanoparticles within a polymeric material …

Unlike inorganic nanoparticles, organic nanoparticles (oNPs) offer the advantage of “interior
tailorability,” thereby enabling the controlled variation of physicochemical characteristics and …